Napoleon Hill - Quotes

Apr 15,2015

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The starting point of all achievement is desire.

Strength and growth come only through continuous effort and struggle.

Think twice before you speak, because your words and influence will plant the seed of either success or failure in the mind of another.

If you cannot do great things, do small things in a great way.

Your big opportunity may be right where you are now.

Great achievement is usually born of great sacrifice, and is never the result of selfishness.

Every adversity, every failure, every heartache carries with it the seed of an equal or greater benefit.

Any idea, plan, or purpose may be placed in the mind through repetition of thought.
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Victory is always possible for the person who refuses to stop fighting.
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Patience, persistence and perspiration make an unbeatable combination for success.

A goal is a dream with a deadline.

Cherish your visions and your dreams as they are the children of your soul, the blueprints of your ultimate achievements.

Before success comes in any man's life, he's sure to meet with much temporary defeat and, perhaps some failures. When defeat overtakes a man, the easiest and the most logical thing to do is to quit. That's exactly what the majority of men do.

First comes thought; then organization of that thought, into ideas and plans; then transformation of those plans into reality. The beginning, as you will observe, is in your imagination.

Don't wait. The time will never be just right.

Fears are nothing more than a state of mind.

It is literally true that you can succeed best and quickest by helping others to succeed.
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The majority of men meet with failure because of their lack of persistence in creating new plans to take the place of those which fail.

It takes half your life before you discover life is a do-it-yourself project.

Procrastination is the bad habit of putting of until the day after tomorrow what should have been done the day before yesterday.
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There is one quality which one must possess to win, and that is definiteness of purpose, the knowledge of what one wants, and a burning desire to possess it.

When defeat comes, accept it as a signal that your plans are not sound, rebuild those plans, and set sail once more toward your coveted goal.
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Effort only fully releases its reward after a person refuses to quit.

Action is the real measure of intelligence.

You can start right where you stand and apply the habit of going the extra mile by rendering more service and better service than you are now being paid for.
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What the mind of man can conceive and believe, it can achieve.
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No accurate thinker will judge another person by that which the other person's enemies say about him.
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Desire is the starting point of all achievement, not a hope, not a wish, but a keen pulsating desire which transcends everything.
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Just as our eyes need light in order to see, our minds need ideas in order to conceive.
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Wise men, when in doubt whether to speak or to keep quiet, give themselves the benefit of the doubt, and remain silent.
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If you must speak ill of another, do not speak it, write it in the sand near the water's edge.
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There are no limitations to the mind except those we acknowledge.
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Opportunity often comes disguised in the form of misfortune, or temporary defeat.
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Every person who wins in any undertaking must be willing to cut all sources of retreat. Only by doing so can one be sure of maintaining that state of mind known as a burning desire to win - essential to success.
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Success in its highest and noblest form calls for peace of mind and enjoyment and happiness which come only to the man who has found the work that he likes best.

Nature cannot be tricked or cheated. She will give up to you the object of your struggles only after you have paid her price.

If you do not conquer self, you will be conquered by self.

Whatever the mind of man can conceive and believe, it can achieve.
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Happiness is found in doing, not merely possessing.

You don't have to fear defeat if you believe it may reveal powers that you didn't know you possessed.
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All the breaks you need in life wait within your imagination, Imagination is the workshop of your mind, capable of turning mind energy into accomplishment and wealth.

Most great people have attained their greatest success just one step beyond their greatest failure.

Edison failed 10,000 times before he made the electric light. Do not be discouraged if you fail a few times.
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We begin to see, therefore, the importance of selecting our environment with the greatest of care, because environment is the mental feeding ground out of which the food that goes into our minds is extracted.
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No man can succeed in a line of endeavor which he does not like.
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No man ever achieved worth-while success who did not, at one time or other, find himself with at least one foot hanging well over the brink of failure.
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Your ability to use the principle of autosuggestion will depend, very largely, upon your capacity to concentrate upon a given desire until that desire becomes a burning obsession.
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Understand this law and you will then know, beyond room for the slightest doubt, that you are constantly punishing yourself for every wrong you commit and rewarding yourself for every act of constructive conduct in which you indulge.
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Biography

Napoleon Hill (born Oliver Napoleon Hill; October 26, 1883 – November 8, 1970) was an American self-help author. He is well known for his book Think and Grow Rich (1937) which is among the top 10 best selling self-help books of all time. Hill's works insisted that fervid expectations are essential to improving one's life (wikipedia)